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Caroline Wilson

Caroline Wilson has been chief football writer for The Age since 1999. She was the first woman to cover Australian Rules football on a full-time basis and the first woman to win the AFL's gold media award. She has won the AFL Players Association's football writer of the year (1999) and the AFL Media Association's most outstanding football writer and most outstanding feature writer (2000, 2003, 2005). She also won a Melbourne Press Club Quill Award in 2003.

Caroline Wilson
Alastair Clarkson returned to the AFL Commission table on Monday, 12 months after identifying a serious deficiency in AFL coaching ranks - a deficiency which so resonated with Mike Fitzpatrick's...

Caroline Wilson
Linda Dessau's influence upon the game she has fought quietly to reshape can be officially documented from the moment Kevin Sheedy and Peter Jackson almost two decades ago invited her to lunch in a...

Caroline Wilson
Essendon's ongoing refusal to make itself available for the AFL's pre-season challenge is starting to make a mockery of the competition with just two weeks remaining until the first bounce.

Caroline Wilson
The continuing possibility that Essendon will withdraw completely from the AFL's pre-season competition involves a number of ironies not lost on anyone in touch with this devastating chronicle as it...

Caroline Wilson
Every listed Essendon player from 2012 would be allowed to withdraw from all 2015 pre-season games under an AFL proposal that would help hide the identities of Bombers players charged with taking...

Caroline Wilson
A dispute over crucial anti-doping evidence which the 34 past and present Essendon players facing bans say has been denied to them by ASADA is expected to be resolved at a directions hearing early on...

Caroline Wilson
On the eve of his 31st season as an AFL coach, Mick Malthouse has given some ground on the vexing issue that has increasingly proved to be his most famous Achilles heel: football's fifth quarter.

Caroline Wilson
St Kilda's return home to the Junction Oval in a joint venture with cricket been put firmly back onto the table by the Victorian Government which has pledged to back a $59 million redevelopment of...